Tag: action
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DeaconsDen Classic Reaction – Enter the Dragon
With Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee was no longer a superstar in Hong Kong, but all over the world. The film represents his return to the Hollywood movie business with this joint venture between America and Hong Kong. It was what he wanted ever since he worked on The Green Hornet. Tragically, he would not […]
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Revisiting Old Detroit: A Look Back on the RoboCop films.
It’s funny how one gets the urge to revisit a series of movies. I currently play Mortal Kombat 11 and with the game’s Aftermath expansion RoboCop was added to the game as a guest character. I’ve had a lot of fun learning his moves and combos and it just got me eager to rewatch the […]
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DeaconsDen Classic Reaction – Inferno (1953)
Inferno is a nifty blend of film noir and survival adventure. Robert Ryan plays a wealthy man who’s left to die in the desert by his wife and her lover. Although we wonder why these people have done this to the man, we learn pretty quickly that he’s been an awful man and husband. There’s […]
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DeaconsDen Classic Reaction – Gun Fury
Directed by Raoul Walsh, Gun Fury is a revenge western that sees Rock Hudson as a man left for dead after a stagecoach robbery and sets out to find the men who did this to him. The gang has also kidnapped his fiancée played by Donna Reed who was coming off an Oscar winning role […]
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DeaconsDen Classic Reaction – Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef was only the second or 3rd film released in CinemaScope. After the success of the first CinemaScope feature, The Robe, the folks at Fox felt this technology could be applied to smaller films. This is an adventure film with a Romeo and Juliet vibe. The story of 2 young people from […]
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) – DeaconsDen Reaction
2016’s Suicide Squad, (also reviewed here on DeaconsDen) introduced movie watchers to the cinematic Harley Quinn. No matter your feelings on that film, one thing that was positively mentioned was Margot Robbie’s portrayal of the former Arkham Asylum psychiatrist who is manipulated to criminal activity by The Joker. Now Harley is on her own in […]
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Bad Boys For Life – DeaconsDen Reaction
2020 kicks off here at DeaconsDen with a reunion of old friends. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return as the hilarious combo of Miami PD detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett. Bad Boys For Life is the 3rd entry in the action-comedy series that began in 1995 with Bad Boys and continued in 2003 with […]
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Rambo: Last Blood – DeaconsDen Reaction
Sylvester Stallone returns to screen as Vietnam veteran John Rambo in the fifth installment of the Rambo series of action films that began in 1982 with the thriller FIRST BLOOD. This is the first film in the franchise since 2008’s RAMBO which was directed by Stallone. This go around, he is directed by Adrian Grunberg […]
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Aquaman – DeaconsDen Reactions
The King of the Seven Seas arrives in his first full fledged motion picture. Aquaman is the sixth film in DC’s cinematic universe, taking place after 2017’s Justice League. Jason Momoa reprises his role as Arthur Curry and what we receive as viewers is a visually ambitious story of a man simply wanting to understand […]
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The Predator- DeaconsDen Reaction
The Predator is the fourth entry in the sci-fi/action series. This installment is directed and co-written by Shane Black who returns to the franchise after a having a supporting role as Hawkins in the 1987 original. How did I feel about it? I was hopeful that with Black at the helm, there would some bit […]
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